The Anyone But a Man Edition, I'm Hana Rosen, a host of NPRS.

Welcome to the Double X Gap Fest for Thursday, December 14th, the Anyone But a Man Edition.

I'm Hana Rosen, a host of NPR's Invis Bilia,

in the Freezing Cold DC Studios.

And in the Freezing Cold New York Studios,

we have June Thomas, a managing producer of Slate Podcasts hi June hey Hannah it's

actually toasty in the studio that it's freezing in the streets yeah the old saying

toasty in the studio freezing in the streets

and Noreen Malone of New York magazine.

Hi Noreen.

Hi, Hannah. So were you guys up late last night watching election results?

Did it feel, did you have the sort of PTSD reprisal of November? Were you like in that

moment? My household was kind of in that moment. We were waiting like

Tik-Tok for the results of the Alabama election. Yeah definitely watching it. I was watching it via Twitter and I saw a lot of

people tweeting about how they felt triggered by the The needle. The New York Times is election tracking needle which kind of bounces around.

But I didn't I didn't it just felt a little different than a year ago.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, we'll talk about it.

I feel like that election is sort of the subtext of a lot of what we're talking about today.

So let's get going. We are going to talk about first Democrats positioning

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